ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50793
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| Date: | Wednesday 8 March 1944 |
| Time: | 15:50 LT |
| Type: |  Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-5 |
| Owner/operator: | 5./JG 300 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 1231 |
| MSN: | schwarze 2 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Riekemanses, Weerselo, Overijssel -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Deelen airfield (NL) |
Feindflug (operational sortie). On this day, the USAAF raided the VKF ballbearing factories at Erkner (Brandenburg), Germany (primary target). Targets of opportunity were industrial areas at Berlin and Wildau (Brandenburg).
Over Overijssel, Focke-Wulfs of II./JG 300 clashed with P-38 Lightnings of the 364th Fighter Group that were flying bomber support for USAAF bombers. The battle took place at high altitude.
The aircraft was shot down by a P-38 Lightning in this fight.
The pilot, Oberleutnant Ernst-Erich Hirschfeld, bailed out with slight burns to his legs. He was taken to a hospital at Gronau (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany).
Minutes before, the Luftwaffe pilot had shot down P-38 42-67223: he claimed a 'P-38' north of Twente airfield, at 7500 metres.
The USAAF pilot, his victim, would later succumb to his wounds. Remarkably, both pilots would not survive July 1944. 2nd Lt. K.F. London would die of his wounds on the 16th of July 1944, while Hirschfeld would be shot down and killed whilst flying Fw 190 A-8 'gelbe 1' near Erfurt (Thüringen, Germany) on the 28th of July 1944.
Oberleutnant Hirschfeld had already some victories on his name, achieved whilst flying 'Wilde Sau' operations.
His identified claims are (research by T. Boiten, author of the Nachtjagd Combat Archive):
- 22.9.1943 / 5./JG 300 / Stirling / Hannover: 4300 m. - 214 Squadron Stirling R9258
- 27.9.1943 / 5./JG 300 / Lancaster / Hannover - probably 207 Squadron Lancaster R5963 (Cat. B damaged)
- 3.10.1943 / 5./JG 300 / Stirling / south of Kassel: 4300 - 2000 m. - 623 Squadron Stirling EF158
- 20.2.1944 / 5./JG 300 / Lancaster / Leipzig: 6.500 m. - 408 Squadron Lancaster LL719 or 630 Squadron Lancaster ND532
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3523&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archives 1943 & 1944
http://www.luftwaffe.cz/hirschfeld.html
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=50787
http://www.americanairmuseum.com/mission/812
Luftwaffe claims by Michael Balss
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 25 September 1944 | 171595 | 2./JG 11 Luftwaffe | 1 | near Nijmegen, Gelderland | |
w/o |
| 1 January 1945 | 400207 | 6./JG 26 Luftwaffe | 0 | Stenenbaak northwest of Brielle, Zuid-Holland | |
w/o |
| 14 January 1945 | 980217 | 2./JG 1 Luftwaffe | 1 | Gemen, Schöppingen, Nordrhein-Westfalen |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 06-Mar-2019 09:00 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Mar-2019 18:10 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 20-Mar-2019 10:06 | TigerTimon | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 10-Feb-2020 11:50 | TigerTimon | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 15-Mar-2020 15:55 | DB | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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